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Mar
29

MEMS Annual Lecture

Shakespeare, Women, and the Story of English Wine

Location

University Center : 312

Date & Time

March 29, 2016, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Description

“Some wine, ho!”: Shakespeare, Women, and the Story of English Wine What did Shakespeare’s contemporaries drink and what did they think about it? If we think about Renaissance beverages at...

Mar
23

Scenes from Macbeth Reading

Location

Performing Arts & Humanities Building : English Lounge

Date & Time

March 23, 2016, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Description

Double, double, toil and trouble... In honor of the four hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare’s death (1616), we invite students and faculty to attend a short reading of scenes from Macbeth on...

Mar
1

Poetry Reading: Lia Purpura

Location

Library and Gallery, Albin O. Kuhn : Gallery

Date & Time

March 1, 2016, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Description

Lia Purpura, the English Department's Writer-in-Residence, will be giving a poetry reading from her latest collection, It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful on Tuesday, March 1, 2016 from 4:00 to 5:00...

Feb
19

MA Student Reception

A Time for Good Food and Good Advice

Location

Performing Arts & Humanities Building : 428

Date & Time

February 19, 2016, 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm

Description

The Department of English here at UMBC is pleased to invite its MA students and faculty to join us on February 19, 2016 at 4:30 PM in the Performing Arts and Humanities Building, Room 428, for a...

Nov
18

CURRENTS Talk: Tanya Olson

txt me im board: Long Poem in Contemporary American Poetry

Location

Performing Arts & Humanities Building : 216

Date & Time

November 18, 2015, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Description

Part of the Dresher Center for the Humanities' CURRENTS: Humanities Work Now talks, Tanya Olson will present work from her new poetry manuscript, Stay. Stay explores, in America today, the cost of...

Nov
11

W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture

Linked Fates and Great Expectations

Location

Performing Arts & Humanities Building : Linehan Concert Hall

Date & Time

November 11, 2015, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Description

Please join us for the annual W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture on Wednesday, November, 11, 2015 from 7:00 to 8:30 PM in the Linehan Concert Hall. This year, Dinaw Mengestu--MacArthur Fellow, acclaimed...

Nov
11

Fall 2015 English Pedagoquium

Teaching with Sound: Digital Audio Editing Workshop

Location

Performing Arts & Humanities Building : 428

Date & Time

November 11, 2015, 12:00 pm – 12:50 pm

Description

Please join the English Department on Wednesday, November 11, from 12 to 12:50 in the Performing Arts and Humanities Building, Room 428, for its pedagoguium, a discussion of innovative teaching...

Oct
28

Fall 2015 English Colloquium

Modernist Psychodrama and Wasteland Critique in HR and WWI

Location

Performing Arts & Humanities Building : 428

Date & Time

October 28, 2015, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Description

Christopher Allen Varlack will be presenting a talk entitled, "Towards a Trans-Atlantic Approach: Modernist Psychodrama and Wasteland Critique in Literature of the Harlem Renaissance and World War...

Oct
20

Fall 2015 Talk with Mike Chasar

From Baraka to Rihanna: Legacies of the Black Arts Movement

Location

Performing Arts & Humanities Building : 216

Date & Time

October 20, 2015, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Description

Please join us on Tuesday, October 20, 2015, from 12:00 to 1:30 PM in the Performing Arts & Humanities Building, Room 216 (the Dresher Center) for an exciting talk about literature and popular...